Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 7, 2016
Every startup begins with an idea, but from that point forward, it’s all about execution. Founders soon learn that customers only spend real money for solutions rather than ideas. Investors have also learned not to invest in ideas but only in entrepreneurs and teams who can deliver solutions. Success requires moving your passion quickly from the idea to the business implementation.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 7, 2016
On Saturday I went to two films at the Boulder International Film Festival – Code: Debugging the Gender Gap and A Good American. Both were excellent and worth watching, but Code was special for me as its an issue I’ve been helping work on for over a decade. When I joined the National Center for Women & Information Technology board as the chair in 2005, it was a nascent organization and the issue of the small number of women in computer science, while often talked about, wasn
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YoungUpstarts
MARCH 7, 2016
Image credit: Father and son from Shutterstock. by Ankita Sheth, co–founder of Vista Rooms. In November 2015, Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his paternity leave plans. The news was received enthusiastically and immediately garnered more than 300,000 encouraging likes, over 15,000 appreciative comments and media attention. Definitely a step in the right direction, but the way Zuckerberg stands out as a rare example makes you realize that this isn’t a phenomenon half as co
Up and Running
MARCH 7, 2016
When I was growing up, I had tons of hobbies. I loved to draw, paint, and make things out of clay. I never played sports, but I was involved in gymnastics, ballet, and community theater. I was constantly finding joy in doing, creating, and learning something new. As I grew older, most of those hobbies fell by the wayside. Recently, I find myself wondering—what changed?
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 7, 2016
Image credit: Copyright message from Shutterstock. by Paige Zandri, Attorney Network Director at Priori Legal. Understanding the four main types of intellectual property is a preliminary step to intellectual property acumen as patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights each have their own legal protections. 1. Does my company own its intellectual property?
SiliconHills
MARCH 7, 2016
Opinion Piece By CHELSEA COLLIER Special to Silicon Hills News There has been plenty of attention and activity lately about the sharing economy (Uber, Lyft, HomeAway, AirBNB, VRBO), local regulatory bodies (City of Austin, Austin City Council) and what happens when these groups are at odds with each other. The issue at hand goes way […] The post Over Regulation is Weird and That’s Not a Good Thing appeared first on SiliconHills.
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The Equity Kicker
MARCH 7, 2016
At a conference last week Autodesk CEO Carl Bass said that he thinks about acquisitions in three buckets: companies that are really people who have a technology that Autodesk wants to build up (acquihires). middle-size companies, meaning they have product that they’re selling, maybe even internationally. large scale acquisitions. He wants to make lots of acquisitions in the first category, a handful in the second, and only rarely in the third.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 7, 2016
Startups are natural early adopters, and it makes sense that they’d fuel other startups’ growth. But with a potential correction in venture funding looming, it’s vital that we be thoughtful about who our customers are.
Austin Startup
MARCH 7, 2016
Recently, there’s been discussion by some who challenge Austin’s position as a great place to build a company. They couldn’t be more wrong… Continue reading on Medium ».
SiliconHills
MARCH 7, 2016
Condé Nast, the publisher of Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ and The New Yorker, Monday announced plans to open a new digital innovation center in Austin with 50 employees. The center will serve as the company’s outpost for its digital teams with a focus on engineering and product development for Condé Nast’s digital portfolio. Condé Nast […] The post Condé Nast to Open Austin Digital Innovation Center appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 7, 2016
The mobile apps market keeps growing infinitely like a hydra on steroids. The use of mobile devices is limitless.
Austin Startup
MARCH 7, 2016
Here are 20 companies in our community launching products, announcing funding, pitching on stage and everything else in between. The list… Continue reading on Medium ».
Hearpreneur
MARCH 7, 2016
Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners. There is a method to become great and become unbeatable. Watch this video, meditate on it and put it in action. Winners lock on. If you want to be the best, your mindset needs to reflect the best.
Austin Startup
MARCH 7, 2016
It’s the week before SXSW and you can feel the intensity growing in Austin. There is a frenzy as everyone tries to plan one more event… Continue reading on Medium ».
Spencer Fry
MARCH 7, 2016
Back in April, 2015, I announced on this blog that I was working on a new startup called Coach. It was early. It was bootstrapped. It was exploratory. Since then a lot has happened, including a shift in direction, ten months of development, and identifying a much greater need that better aligned with what I wanted to do. So, what has Coach become? Coach is now a platform for professionals looking to independently market, manage and grow their businesses.
Austin Startup
MARCH 7, 2016
Think of Europe as a vast laboratory for experimentation. Take the European Union, which has both soared in the popular imagination (one… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 7, 2016
Don’t Grow Too Fast! written by Alex Boyer read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Growth is the goal of every business. If you’re an entrepreneur, you aren’t satisfied with a stagnant level of success, you’re always looking to improve. It’s a major part of the entrepreneurial spirit – business owners are always seeking more. But growth comes with its own set of challenges, and businesses that aren’t prepared can suffer because of growth.
Austin Startup
MARCH 7, 2016
1. Don’t go to the huge events held in Convention Center Continue reading on Medium ».
Hunter Walker
MARCH 7, 2016
Advice for folks in tech who are at the beginning or middle of building their careers: Focus on weak ties. Once you’ve got let’s say ~100 diverse relationships within the tech community you’re probably a single hop from most people you don’t already know. At that point I think what really benefits you – in terms of new ideas, expanding your perspective, and accessing new talent pools – is to spend time with extremely impressive folks in industries outside of
Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 7, 2016
Also Available On. Show Summary. This week Mike Michalowicz, Chris Curran and Kristina Bolduc interview the Operator of Carnival Day and explore what it’s like to be a manager of a business, but not the owner – and what your relationship to money and profitability is as a result. In this episode we dispel the value of making bold decisions and loss aversion.
Brandanew
MARCH 7, 2016
In many previous organizations that I’ve worked with Sales was always a team somehow disconnected with marketing or product. As an engineer one of my first challenging problems was how to reproduce what the sales guy had promised the customer on our software. At that time, I’d often think- I want to join a sales team in my next job. I’ll only tell the customer what’s really feasible.
Occam's Razor
MARCH 7, 2016
I want you to sign up for something very, very special I'm doing: Writing short stories from the intersection of marketing and analytics. My goal is to get you promoted, you are going to love it. So. Please do sign up. But, first, as you've come to expect from this blog… Context…. Should you own or rent? The logic we are taught from when we were babies is that it is better to own than rent.
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